GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| hirsute | hairy |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |